Laurie Halse Anderson: "Momma berkata bahwa hantu tidak bisa bergerak...

"Momma berkata bahwa hantu tidak bisa bergerak di atas air. Itu sebabnya orang Afrika terjebak di Amerika. Mereka terus menggerakkan kami di atas air, mencuri kami dari hantu dan leluhur kami, yang meneriakkan sungai asin ke pasir. Di situlah Momma sekarang, meraung-raung di tepi air, sementara gadis-gadisnya ditarik keluar dari pandangan di bawah layar putih yang pecah karena angin."

--- Laurie Halse Anderson

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.